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Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Promise of Revenge Subtitle: A Western Duo Author: Lauran Paine Narrator: Kyle Munley Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 04-01-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Tom Barker returns home 15 years after his mum had abandoned him, his dad abused him, and the town stood by and did nothing to help. Now Barker is a man of financial means, and he is intent on evening the score with the people who made his life miserable.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Dark Road Author: Ma Jian Narrator: Tania Rodrigues Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 11-07-13 Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Meili, a young peasant woman living in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a distant descendant of Confucius. Desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, the family escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life. Critic Reviews: "Unforgettable" (Sunday Telegraph) "[Ma Jian's] characterization is superb. A devastating critique of China's oppressive communist regime" (Mail on Sunday)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Torchlight List Subtitle: Around the World in 200 Books Author: Jim Flynn Narrator: Anthony Haden Salerno Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 11-06-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-hear books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the listener beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination. From Arthur Koestler's take on the universe and Barbara Tuchman's view on 14th-century life to F. Scott Fitzgerald's impressions of American morality and Robert Fisk's analysis of the West's history of intervention in the Middle East, this engaging account is an idiosyncratic and endlessly interesting tour of the world through literature. Editorial Reviews: Jim Flynn begins The Torchlight List: Around the World in 200 Books with an account of an uncle who read by "torchlight" on a boat during World War I. Flynns book provides a reading map for those who want to transform their lives through the written word. Given a relaxed performance by Anthony Haden Salerno, The Torchlight List mixes canonical works of literature like Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace and Anna Karenina with more eclectic reading material, like Evolution in Action by Julian Huxley and The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Each entry is given a concise, insightful gloss by Flynn. With an avuncular tone, Salerno conveys the wisdom and intellectual curiosity of Flynns writing.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Sixth Directorate Author: Joseph Hone Narrator: Jeremy Clyde Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 11-05-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Peter Marlow goes undercover to infiltrate the KGB. The Soviet intelligence agency's worst nightmare has come true: Besides the five directorates that oversee its operations, there lurks a sixth - a shadow directorate that may be plotting a coup against the Communist Party. Disruption of the KGB might spell trouble for Moscow, but for the British Intelligence, chaos in the Soviet Union means a chance to infiltrate. To make the most of the opportunity, Her Majesty's intelligence service turns to Peter Marlow, a disgraced former spy who has spent the last four years in jail. He is given his freedom in exchange for his espionage service. Peter assumes the mantle of George Graham, a KGB agent with more secrets than he's prepared to handle. The Sixth Directorate is the second audiobook in the Peter Marlow Mystery series, which also includes The Private Sector and The Valley of the Fox.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The MacGuffin Author: Stanley Elkin Narrator: Allan Robertson Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 11-05-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: A municipal employee sets out to unravel a murder - and save himself from the split personality that is pushing him to the brink At age 58, Robert Druffs destructive alter ego has begun to take over his life. Frustrated with his job as Commissioner of the Streets and desperate to protect his aura of power, Druff injects himself into the middle of a conspiracy revolving around the death of his sons girlfriend - and everyone, from his employees to his mistress, seems to be complicit in the plot. Deeply humorous and engaging, The MacGuffin is a striking exploration of obsession and the imaginative story of a man struggling against his own frailty to regain control of his life.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Stillness and Shadows Author: John Gardner Narrator: Alpha Trivette, Robin Bloodworth Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 11-05-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Gardners relentlessly honest and moving portrayal of a broken marriage, and his ambitious unfinished masterpiece - a metafictional mystery centering around one mans struggle to recover his lost identity - together in one accomplished volume Stillness: Martin and Joan Orrick - distant cousins who have known each other since early childhood - are in the final throes of a failing marriage. Martin is a compulsive drinker who obsesses about his writing, and Joan is struggling with a debilitating physical condition. Together they search for some type of collective identity, and identify where the dissolution of their love began. Inspired by therapy sessions Gardner experienced with his first wife, Stillness is an insightful portrait of one couples struggle for fulfillment in a tumultuous world. Private detective Gerald Craine is pursuing an unknown murderer. At the same time, he himself is the target of an unknown persons pursuit. Stumbling through an alcohol-soaked haze, Craine desperately seeks meaning and understanding in a world fraught with fragmented narratives. Shadows: John Gardners friend Nicholas Delbanco has supplemented this unfinished novel with seven sections from Gardners original manuscript that provide critical insight into Gardners approach to developing the novel and its characters, giving a rare glimpse inside the creative process of one of the 20th centurys most inventive writers.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: My Summer with George Subtitle: A Novel of Love at a Certain Age Author: Marilyn French Narrator: Elisa Carlson Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins Language: English Release date: 10-25-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: An unapologetically romantic novel about a woman who finds love in middle age After four marriages and numerous affairs, famed author Hermione Beldame doesn't expect real life to play out like her bestselling romance novels. So she's stunned when she meets George Johnson at a party and the Louisville journalist sweeps her off her feet. The handsome, seductive younger man is the epitome of southern charm. Suddenly, Hermione, who never believed in happily-ever-after, is passionately, obsessively in love. During this game-changing summer, as she shuttles between Manhattan and the Hamptons, Hermione - born Elsa Schutz - looks back on her life and the choices that brought her to this crossroad. Consumed by an erotic longing she's never felt before, she sets out on a quest to understand her past, her present, and her future, set in motion by this maddening, elusive, ultimately unknowable man.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Edisto Revisited Subtitle: A Novel Author: Padgett Powell Narrator: Liam Aiken Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins Language: English Release date: 10-24-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: In the sequel to Powells acclaimed debut, Edisto, Simons Manigault is older - if not particularly wiser - and searching for the cure to his restlessness in memory, travel, and forbidden love Fourteen years after we first met Simons Manigault, our protagonist is newly graduated from Clemson University, bored, unfocused, and idling his summer away at his mothers home in Edisto, South Carolina. Not yet ready to fully embrace adulthood, Simons finds himself surrendering to cynicism, as well as to the temptations of his "turned-out-well" first cousin, Patricia. To avoid sinking further into his rut, Simons embarks on a road trip through the South. After a disastrous stint as a Corpus Christi fisherman, he exits the Lone Star State, doubling back to the Louisiana bayou to spend some quality time with his former friend and mentor - and his mother's ex-lover - Taurus. But as even Taurus' once sought-after wisdom wears thin, Simons begins to suspect that the grass is not greener on the other side - it may be burnt, brown, and dead wherever he goes. Padgett Powell's literary return to Edisto is as outrageous, witty, and bitingly sharp as its predecessor. Listeners who adored their first meeting with Simons Manigault will relish a second helping of his ennui and bad behavior. Newcomers will likewise be heartily glad they made the trip.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Wandering Highway Subtitle: A Desperate Journey Home Author: Ike W. Warren Narrator: Charlie James Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 10-22-13 Publisher: Ike Warren Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: A young married couple, with a five year old daughter and a baby boy on the way, set out on a shopping trip to an out of town mall. Just as they reach the mall an EMP blast knocks out every electronic device in sight including every cell phone, automobile, and every plane flying in the sky. Their only choice to reunite with their family is to embark on a long and desperate walk home. As the hordes of refugees pour out onto the highways, some seek to merely survive while others seek to profit amidst the chaos. Out there on the road, they face challenges and obstacles that they could never have imagined as they witness the collapse of society happening all around them.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lemon Subtitle: A Novel Author: Cordelia Strube Narrator: Angela Gothos Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 10-18-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Long listed for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Lemon is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her: Three mothers, one deadbeat dad, one cancer-riddled protégé, two friends, one tree-hugging stepbrother, and a 60 percent average. The adults in her life are all mired in self-centeredness and the other kids are busy getting high, and she just can't be bothered to fit in. Editorial Reviews: Author Cornelia Strube began her literary career writing plays for radio. Its no wonder her novel, Lemon, performed by Angela Gothos in an appropriate and satisfying tone of mystification and derision, makes a natural audiobook. Lemon is a teenage girl in the mold of Holden Caulfield: idealistic to the point of despair, awash in a world of solipsistic adults, outside the shenanigans of her idiot classmates, and possessed of an idiosyncratically gutter eloquence. Add to this a very 21st-century host of problems, from vicious school stabbings to deadbeat dads with difficult lovers and you have the morass from which Lemon must rise or sink. On one hand, Lemon is a classic high school archetype; on the other, shes a totally unique striver well worth hearing.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Rose Rabbi Subtitle: A Novel Author: Daniel Stern Narrator: Derek Shetterly Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 1 min Language: English Release date: 10-18-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: All men are artists. After all, they have their lives. Wolf Walker is that noblest of creatures: The unrealized artist. He is also ethical advisor to the Lester & French Advertising Agency - a professional conscience. After reading an alarming entry in his wifes diary on his fortieth birthday, Wolf sets out to reclaim his sense of identity. His resulting midlife crisis is both surreal and hilarious, poignant and imaginative. The Rose Rabbi is a fable about the relation between morals, art, and life, from one of Americas best writers of fiction.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Scary, Man Author: Jeffrey Hickey Narrator: Jeffrey Hickey Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 10-17-13 Publisher: Jeffrey Hickey & Bignboo Productions Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: As a professional storyteller and teacher, Griffin Donnelley has a mesmerizing way with words. In fact, it has enabled him to cut quite a swath through the small towns in California where he teaches in schools and performs in bookstores and town halls. Nonetheless, he just can't seem to catch a break, and is chugging along in his Camry from gig to gig, heading straight for utter burnout. Is there still time to reroute his faltering existence, or is his future looking decidedly scary? Droll and dead-on in its sizing up of contemporary culture, Scary, Man is author Jeffrey Hickey's wry and singular story of one man, his wife, and their daughter. Together, they embrace a new normal at the turn of the twenty-first century in America, while trying their hardest in the land of the free, and the home of the afraid.

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://hotaudiobook.com Título: El fetichista [The Fetishist] Autor: Ralph Barby Narrador: Marcos Chacón, Sonolibro Formato: Unabridged Duración: 43 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 10-16-13 Editor: Sonolibro Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary Resumen del editor: Max Gufler es un viajante de comercio de mediana edad y aspecto anodino, que en su infancia sufrió una lesión cerebral y desde entonces vive atormentado por terribles dolores de cabeza. Lleva una vida aparentemente normal, pero en realidad es un violador y asesino en serie, de aficiones fetichistas. Vamos a poder verle violar y asesinar a una joven autoestopista que ha recogido en la carretera; matar a un compañero de trabajo al que envidia por ser más joven y mejor vendedor que él; y violar y asesinar a una viuda que respondió a un anuncio suyo en el periódico. Aunque un neuropsiquiatra se entrevista con él y estudia su comportamiento, intentando descubrir la raíz de su problema no lo va a conseguir fácilmente. Max seguirá matando. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Pet Noir Author: Pati Nagle Narrator: Al Dano Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins Language: English Release date: 10-16-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Can a lowly gumpaw hope for love with a girl who rides in a jewel-encrusted carrier? Feline investigator Leon, with opposable thumbs and the ability to talk, is possibly the most dangerous cat in the galaxy. Indentured to the Security department of Gamma Station until the cost of his creation is paid off, Leon alternates between harassing his human partner/roommate Devin and fighting sleazoid criminals, yet he still finds time to flirt with the lovely Leila, an exotic Burmese who lives in the swankiest level of the station. Will he win her heart, and more important - will he win his freedom? Editorial Reviews: Leon is a genetically-modified cat whose ability to talk and opposable thumbs make him an asset to the security department of Gamma Station and a menace to any criminals that dare cross his intergalactic path. The short mysteries in this collection are all linked by their common feline hero, but they can stand alone. P. G. Nagle also writes science fiction, fantasy, and mystery under the name Patrice Greenwood and she was a finalist for both the Writers of the Future and the Theodore Sturgeon Awards. Al Dano specializes in science fiction narration. Pet Noir probably constitutes his first whip-smart, feisty cat character, but he does remarkable work with each and every voice in Nagle's expansive literary universe.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Down Among the Women Author: Fay Weldon Narrator: Gemma Dawson Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins Language: English Release date: 10-14-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Respectable wife, unmarried mother, divorcee, femme fatale - these are roles that society demands from Scarlet, Jocelyn, Helen, Susan and Audrey. But things do not slot neatly into pigeon holes, and as the women negotiate around the events in their lives, they discover their real selves.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Some Hope Subtitle: A Patrick Melrose Novel, Book 3 Author: Edward St Aubyn Narrator: Alex Jennings Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 10-10-13 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: The third Patrick Melrose novel. Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies, he finds his search for redemption and capacity for forgiveness challenged by his observation of the cruelties around him. Armed with his biting wit and a newly fashioned openness, can Patrick, who has been to the furthest limits of experience and back again, find release from the savageries of his childhood?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Dry Spell Author: Susie Moloney Narrator: Alice Barrett Mitchell Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 10-09-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: A woman haunted by fear. A town gripped by terror. A man with the power to set them both free. Karen Grange came to Goodlands, North Dakota, to start her life over.Instead, she watches a once-thriving town die before her eyes. Four years without rain has struck Goodlands like a curse, withering crops and darkening the air with dust. In its wake, a sudden wave of strange, twisted crimes has shattered families and lives. Desperate, Karen reaches out to the only man who can help - a man who offers a miracle...and promises to heal her wounded heart. His name is Tom Keatley. A drifter, an outsider like Karen, Tom is a rainmaker, the stuff of myth. But to Karen, he is her last hope. Now, as Tom struggles to pull rain from the sky, something unexpected happens that changes both of their lives forever. For beneath the hard, cracked earth, a shattering secret is about to explode - a secret whose chilling repercussions will challenge a man's courage, a woman's desire...and the soul of an angry, embittered town. Editorial Reviews: It has been four years since rain has fallen in Goodlands, North Dakota, and the drought has caused farms to fail, disastrous fires, and an uptick in crimes as the town has become enveloped in darkness. Tom, a rainmaker, is drawn to Goodlands to end the drought when a deadly spirit rises from the ground, wreaking even more havoc. Susie Moloney crafts a slow-building tension that is echoed in a simmering and suggestive performance by Alice Barrett Mitchell, whose smooth intonation masks a subtle edge that enables the eerie setting and increasingly unsettling narrative to insinuate itself into the listener.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Once Upon a Fastball Author: Bob Mitchell Narrator: Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 10-08-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Your legacy is in the Attic. The words leap from the cryptic poem left for Harvard professor Seth Stein by his Papa Sol, the doting grandfather who vanished without a trace four years earlier. It was Papa Sol who instilled an unquenchable passion for baseball in Seth's soul; it was Sol who also ignited Seth's obsession with history, spinning fabulous tales of times and people long gone. And when Papa Sol disappeared, it was Seth who stepped up to the plate, caring for Sol's bewildered wife as she clung to her cherished memories. Seth is still searching for answers when the poem - "For Setharoo, on his 50th birthday" - appears in his grandmother's home. It leads him to a scuffed, yellowed baseball, resting in a box handmade by his grandfather. Without warning, a single touch of the rough leather thrusts Seth through the swirling vortex of history onto the streets of 1950s New York and then to the greatest baseball game ever played, the Bobby Thomson "Shot Heard `Round the World" playoff classic. It is in this surreal, sepia-toned site of past glory that historian Seth begins a wondrous, life-changing odyssey that allows him to find the answers he so desperately seeks. Suspenseful, thought-provoking, funny, and poignant , this beautifully crafted novel is a joyous tribute to our inspiring and timeless national pastime, and a rare treasure for all those who love baseball.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Ivyland Subtitle: A Novel Author: Miles Klee Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins Language: English Release date: 10-08-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: It's spring in Ivyland... Debut novelist Miles Klee takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope, and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny: something only a few notable contemporaries such as Jeff Vandermeer and Michael Chabon have been able to do. Post-urban New Jersey is instantly recognizable in this interlinked series of short vignettes... and Lev's living room is puddles of water and sun, and a bunch of those furry caterpillars are hauling themselves from surface to surface. Populated by a bumbling, murderous citizenry of corrupt cops, innocents, ravenous addicts, lovesick geniuses, and cynical adventurers, Ivyland operates in the shadow of a giant pharmaceutical corporation that thrives on people's weaknesses... and may have an even more sinister agenda. It's our world, only a bit more extreme, and lovingly, precisely depicted with the adept skills native to a master of dark humor. Editorial Reviews: Ivyland, narrated with ironic good cheer by Christa Lewis, is a sprawling science fiction story with a wild and inventive structure set in a drugged-out New Jersey in the near dystopian future. The ominous tale involves an evil pharmaceutical company, a corrupt government, aborted space missions, cults, a deadly plague, and substance abuse; lots and lots of substance abuse. Ivyland walks the fine line between comedy and tragedy and is a worst-case scenario for where America may be headed. Think Infinite Jest meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Brave New World.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Yesterday's News Author: Jeremiah Healy Narrator: Andy Caploe Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 10-08-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher's Summary: A reporter hires Cuddy to investigate her source's suspicious death. According to its daily paper, Nasharbor is an idyllic seaside hamlet. But reporter Jane Rust knows better. Investigating a raid on a child pornography ring, she uncovers a web of police corruption built to protect the sickos behind the camera. She writes a story that should blow the lid off the Nasharbor police, but her editors scrub it clean of any reference to corruption, calling her accusations unfounded. Soon after, the cop who tipped her off to the story is dead. Rust hires Boston PI John Francis Cuddy to look into the murder and the cover-up. But prodding small-town cops is like kicking a hornet's nest. By the end of his investigation, more good people will die, and Cuddy will wish he had never heard of sunny, tranquil Nasharbor.